Solved Mcqs of English Literature 3 "William Shakespeare(1564 – 1616) (Elizabethan Period)"

William Shakespeare(1564 – 1616)
(Elizabethan Period)

218)In which town was Shakespeare born?
a)London
b)Cambridge
c)Stratford 
d)Oxford

219)How many children did Shakespeare have?
1)3
2)5
3)8
4)12

220)How many plays did William Shakespeare write?
a)36
b)37
c)38
d)39

221)What was Shakespeare’s first play?
a)King Lear
b)Henry VI
c)The Tempest
d)Romeo and Juliet
222)How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write?
a)110
b)154
c)175
d)187

223)How many photographs exist of William Shakespeare?
a)2
b)4
c)1
d)0

224)Shakespeare died on?
a)23rd April 1616
b)25th April 1616,
c)28th April 1616
d)30th April 1616

225)Shakespeare died at the age of
a)48
b)52
c)60
d)63

226)How many times suicide occurs in Shakespeare’s plays?

a)7
b)9
c)11
d)13

227)The line “To be or not to be” comes from which play?
a)Macbeth
b)Twelfth Night
c)A Midsummer Night’s dream
d)Hamlet

228) Was the Globe…
a) A Roman Amphitheater.
b) An Elizabethan Theater.
c) An Elizabethan sports stadium.
d) A famous map of the world.

229)Is there is a monument of Shakespeare in Stratford today?
a)True
b)False

230)Which of these was not one of Shakespeare’s plays?
a)Titus Andronicus
b)The Tempest
c)Cymbeline
d)Shakespeare in love

231)Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote,”My salad days, when I was green in judgment.” come from?
a)Antony and Cleopatra
b)Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
c)The Winters Tale
d)The Merry Wives of Windsor

232)Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote,”Neither a borrower nor a lender be” come from?
a)Cymbeline
b)Hamlet
c)Titus Andronicus
d)Pericles, Prince of Tyre 

233)Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!” come from?
a)King Lear
b)As You Like It
c)The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII
d)The Life and Death of King John

234)In what year was the First Folio published?

a)1626
b)1621
c)1623
d)1629

235)What nationality was Shakespeare?

a)Italian
b)English
c)Scottish
d)Greek

236)In which century was Shakespeare born?

a)16th
b)14th
c)15th
d)17th

237)which famous Shakespeare play does the quote “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” come from?

a)The Merry Wives of Windsor
b)Othello, the Moor of Venice
c)Pericles, Prince of Tyre
d)King Henry the Sixth, Part II

238)Which river is associated with Shakespeare’s birth place?

a)The Thames
b)The Avon
c)The Tyburn
d)The Seven

239)Which famous play does the quote,”When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?” come from?

a) The Taming of the Shrew
b) King Lear
c) The Tempest
d) Macbeth

240)How many of Shakespeare’s plays are classified as histories?

a) 7
b) 10
c) 14
d) 18 

241)The group of four plays known as the “major tetralogy” is:

a) Richard III, King John, Henry VIII, 1 Henry VI
b) 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI, Richard III
c) King John, Henry V, Richard II, Richard III
d) Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V 

242)In 1613 the Globe Theater burned down during a production of which play?

a) King John
b) Richard II
c) Henry VIII
d) Henry V 

243)Complete the following famous line from Hamlet: Something is rotten in the state of…
a) England
b) Venice
c) Denmark
d) Maine 

244)Which of the following characters does not appear in Hamlet?
a) Polonius
b) Gertrude
c) Claudius
d) Miranda

245)Where was Hamlet studying before he returned to Denmark?
a) Wittenberg
b) Oslo
c) London
d) Dublin 

246)How are Polonius and Laertes related?

a) Father/son
b) Uncle/nephew
c) Cousin/cousin
d) Brother/brother 

247)What is the name of the playlet Hamlet stages for Claudius?

a) Slings and Arrows
b) Vice of Kings
c) The Murder of Gonzago
d) The Slaying of Lucianus 

248)Who says, “Good night, sweet prince,/And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”?
a) Fortinbras
b) Marcellus
c) Chorus
d) Horatio

249)How does Queen Gertrude die?
a) Accidentally stabbed by Laertes.
b) Drowns in the river outside the castle.
c) Suffers a fatal heart attack while watching Hamlet fight Laertes.
d) Poisoned by drinking from Hamlet’s cup.

250)Who does Polonius send to spy on Laertes in Paris?
a) Francisco
b) Gorgonzola
c) Reynaldo
d) Samson 

251)Who is Voltimand?
a) Ambassador to the King of Norway from the King of Denmark
b) Hamlet’s cousin
c) Ambassador to the King of Denmark from the King of Norway
d) Assassin in the service of Fortinbras 

252)What poison does Claudius pour into the ear of Hamlet’s father, causing his death?
a) Burdock
b) Hebenon
c) Baneberry
d) Hemlock 

253)How many soliloquies does Hamlet deliver?

a)2
b)4
c)7
d)9

Macbeth

254)In which country is Macbeth set?

a) Spain
b) Denmark
c) Scotland
d) Canada 

255)Who is traveling with Macbeth when he first encounters the Three Witches?
a) Macduff
b) Mercutio
c) Lady Macbeth
d) Banquo

256)At the beginning of the play, the Scots are at war with which country?

a) Norway
b) Prussia
c) Iceland
d) Poland 

257)Macbeth hires assassins to murder Banquo’s son, named…
a) Angus
b) Ross
c) Fleance
d) Lennox 

258)How does Lady Macbeth explain her husband’s wild behavior at the banquet?

a) She tells the guests that Banquo’s ghost is haunting Macbeth.
b) She tells the guests that Macbeth has had too much to drink.
c) She informs the guests that Macbeth is ill.
d) She reveals that Macbeth is overcome with grief over the death of Duncan. 

259)Which of the following is not an apparition shown to Macbeth by the Witches:
a) An armed head.
b) A bloody dagger floating in mid-air.
c) A bloody child.
d) A child crowned, with a tree in his hand 

260)Who tells Macbeth, “The queen, my lord, is dead.”?
a) Seyton
b) Siward
c) The Doctor
d) Caithness 

261) Shakespeare”s father died in:
a) 1600
b) 1601
c) 1602
d) 1603

262) Shakespeare joined the Chamber lain’s Men Theatrical Company as a:
a) Actor and playwright
b) Playwright and poet
c)Playwright and writer
d)None of above

263) How many from his plays were published in his lifetime:
a) Only sixteen
b) Only seventeen
c) Only eighteen
d) Only nineteen

264) In which year Globe theater got fire and destroyed?
a)1610
b)1611
c)1612
d)1613

265)Shakespeare dedicated his long narrative poem Venus and Adonis to—————.
a) Henry Wriothesley, the third earl of Southampton
b) Thomas Wriothesley,forth earl of Southampton
c)William Fitzwilliam, first earl of Southampton
d) Henry Wriothesley, the second earl of Southampton 

266) During which period London theaterrs remained closed on account of the plague?
a) 1592
b) 1593
c) 1594
d) 1595

267) Which roles have played by Shakespeare in Hamlet and As you like it?
a) Fortinbras, Corin
b)Leartus, Silvius
c)Osric, Touchstone
d) Ghost, Old servant Adam

268) In ……. year Shakespeare bought the largest house in Stratford, called New place:
a) 1595
b) 1996
c) 1597
d) 15598

269) In 1599 which famous actor and his brother Cuthbert set a new playhouse on the Bank side,

called the Globe?
a) Augustine Phillipps
b) John Heimnge
c) Henry Condell
d) Richard Burbage

270) In Shakespeare’s literary output, the period 1604-1608 is the period of:
a) Comedy plays
b) Historical plays
c) Great Tragedies
d) None of above

271) “Under the green wood tree” is a song in:
a) Love’s labour’s lost
b) As you like it
c) A mid Summer night’s dream
d) Much ado about nothing

272) :Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show
To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe.
He was not of an age, but for all time”.
Who wrote above lines for Shakespeare:
a) Jonson
b) Bacon
c) Wordsworth
d) none of above 

273) Seven Ages of Man appears in ” As you like it”. Which character’s speech it is?
a) Amiens
b) Orlando
c) Oliver
d) Jaques

274) “To be or not to be that is the question”, is famous line of which of Shakespeare’s plays?
a) Othello
b) Macbeth
c) Hamlet
d)King Lear

275) Following are the lines of:
“I’m your wife if you marry me
If not, I’ll die your maid to be your fellow
You may deny me, but I’ll be your servant Whether you deny or not”.

a) Hamlet
b) Romeo and Juliet
c) Tempest
d) Othello

276) Which of the following are characters of “Much ado about nothing”:
a) Hero, Borachio, Antonio, Claudio, Leonato
b) Hero, Orlando, Antonio, Claudio, Leanato
c) Mirrinda, Borachio, Antonio, Claudio, Leanato
d) Hero, Boradio, Antonio, Claudio, Horatio

277) Which of the following is in correct sequel ?
a)Comedy of errors, A mid summer night’s dream, Much ado about nothing, Henry 6 part three.
b)A mid summer night’s dream,Romeo and Juliet, As you like it, King Lear,Pericles.
c)All’s well that ends well, The tempest, As you like it, As you like it,A mid summer night’s dream,Much ado about nothing.
d)King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Measure for measure, Henry 8, Romeo and Juliet.

278)Who was killed by Hamlet unintentionally?
a) Leartus
b)Polonius
c) Forinbras
d) Horatio

279) Who is second Prince of Arragon in “Much ado about nothing”?
a) Leonato
b) Balthasar
c) Don John
d) Don Pedro

280) Which character spoke following lines?
“What’s Montague? It is nor hand nor foot,
Nor arm nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man, O be some other name!
What’s in a name?
That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet,”
a) Desdemona
b) Juliet
c) Rosalind
d) Hero

281) Who is the second attending gentlewoman on Hero? Ursula and_________.
a) Margaret
b) Emilia
c) Helena
d) Celia

282) ” Some born great, some achieve greatness
And some have greatness thrust upon them”.
Above lines are taken from which of following plays?
a) Macbeth
b) Othello
c) Twelfth night
d) As you like it

283) Which of the following play was written in 1601?
a) Othello
b) Hamlet
c) King Lear
d) Macbeth

284) “Antony and Cleopatra” and “Macbeth” was in:
a) 1606
b)1607
c)1608
d)1609

285) Which of the following was written first:
a) Henry six
b) Henry seven
c) Henry five
d) None of above

286) Which of the following are King Lear’s daughters?
a) Desdemona, Goneril and Cordelia
b) Goneril, Ophelia and Regan
c)Goneril, Regan and Cordelia
d) Regan, Cordelia and Beatrice

287) Shakespeare wrote _____ plays?
a) 32
b) 34
c) 36
d) 38

288) With the accession of King James to the English throne, Lord Chamberlain’s Man was renamed:
a) King Lear
b) Gentleman
c) King’s Man
d) None of above

290) Uneasy lies the head that_____( King Henry four, part two):
a) Wears a crown
b) Wears a hat
c) Wears a wig
d) none of these

291) The epigraph of The Waste Land is borrowed from?
(A) Virgil
(B) Fetronius
(C) Seneca
(D) Homer

292. Who called ‘The Waste Land ‘a music of ideas’?
(A) Allen Tate
(B) J. C. Ransom
(C) I. A. Richards
(D) F. R Leavis

293. T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term ‘Unreal City’ in the first and third
sections from?
(A) Baudelaire
(B) Irving Babbit
(C) Dante
(D) Laforgue

294. Which of the following myths does not figure in The Waste
Land?
(A) Oedipus
(B) Grail Legend of Fisher King
(C) Philomela
(D) Sysyphus

295. Joe Gargery is Pip’s?
(A) brother
(B) brother-in-Jaw
(C) guardian
(D) cousin

296. Estella is the daughter of?
(A) Joe Gargery
(B) Abel Magwitch .
(C) Miss Havisham
(D) Bentley Drumnile

297. Which book of John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi?
(A) Sesame and Lilies
(B) The Seven Lamps of Architecture
(C) Unto This Last
(D) Fors Clavigera

298. Graham Greene’s novels are marked by?
(A) Catholicism
(B) Protestantism
(C) Paganism
(D) Buddhism

299. One important feature of Jane Austen’s style is?
(A) boisterous humour
(B) humour and pathos
(C) subtlety of irony
(D) stream of consciousness

300. The title of the poem ‘The Second Coming’ is taken from?
(A) The Bible
(B) The Irish mythology
(C) The German mythology
(D) The Greek mythology

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